With how many professional wrestlers have successfully entered the acting world, like Dave Bautista and John Cena, you can sometimes forget how many of them have dipped their toes into the pond, so to speak. It was only a matter of time that one of them would stumble into a horror movie, and we all lucked out because that led us to Bill Goldberg in Santa’s Slay as none other than Santa himself, only this time, Santa’s the one who is being naughty. The plot here is pretty simple, turns out that Santa only delivered presents because he lost a bet hundreds of years ago, and now that his time is done, he can go back to his favorite thing; murder! While Santa is busy murdering everyone in extremely over the top ways, a teenage boy whose family knows about the secretly murderous ways of Santa has to team up with his high school crush to try and stop Santa and save Christmas.

While Santa’s Slay isn’t a masterpiece, it does a lot of things right that earn it a spot at the cult classic annual watchlist. As you can probably tell from the summary, this is not a movie interested in taking itself too seriously, and even when the kills are gory, it tends to be more in an absurd over the top way than in a strictly horrific way. I still wouldn’t watch this with someone squeamish, but it’s easy for people with a twisted sense of humor to get a lot of laughs out of this, especially when you take into account how much Goldberg chews the scenery and goes all in on this absurd premise. With such a fun premise and the recent success of violent Christmas movies like Terrifier 3 and Violent Night, we’re overdue for a Santa’s Slay remake or legacy sequel. Goldberg could probably still pull it off.

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